Remember a few episodes back in Parks and Recreation during Ben’s bachelor party when Tom Haverford took all the guys to a bar where they sold drinks you could inhale? So, yeah: That’s a real thing. In fact, the Vaportini — which turns alcohol into vapor that you can suck up with a glass straw — is sold for only $30 and the manufacturer is currently negotiating to put the device in bars across the country. All the alcohol, none of the taste or enjoyment! Ron Swanson would not approve. (via NPR)

Yeah, I’ve seen it in Europe at least 5 years ago. But people got alcohol poisoning a lot, because unlike drinking alcohol which gets a first pass thru liver (venous blood) Inhaling it goes to organs like the brain without filtering it thru arterial blood first. (Lungs -> Heart -> Brain) So you get the alcohol/poison unfiltered and much quicker than from the gut.